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Mike Masnick takes a swipe at all the hype surrounding various concepts of voice over wireless: While I agree with some of what he says here, he misses one point about the competition. While I agree that at least the initial voice services to be deployed over WiMax aren’t competitive with 3G or other cellular networks, such services aren’t meant to compete with the mobile offerings. The US Wireless voice over WiMax service is meant to compete against the incumbent fixed line operators. Instead of using the local Bell, a business could instead hire US Wireless for all their voice and data needs.
But Masnick is right on about technologies like Flarion and IPWireless. Those companies set out to create IP-based mobile data networks. They’ve added the voice over IP services to make their technologies competitive with the standard cellular technologies. For these technologies to succeed in a significant way, the major cellular operators will have to deploy them using their existing cellular spectrum. In that case, as Masnick says, wireless voice over IP isn’t a threat to the cellular players because the cellular players are the most likely ones to deploy it.
Posted by nancyg at March 24, 2005 1:05 PM
Categories: Competition
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